An episode in which the only people doing their jobs well are a group of tweens selling lemonade.
Fasci’s Fiasco & Media Malfeasance
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins
We Discuss:
- Are the emails a ‘smoking gun’? Did we learn anything new? Should we care?
- From ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ to ‘I did not fund gain-of-function at that laboratory’
- How the journalistic profession moved from inquiry-modeling to narrative-priming
- Why Anthony Fauci isn’t evil
Hacking Meat-Packing
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-meat-plants-stop-operating-after-jbs-cyber-attack-2021-06-01/
We Discuss:
- Was this related to the pipeline hack? Another hostile foreign outfit?
- Does Maurice still think both were inside jobs?
- Is Amanda, a vegetarian, secretly behind this?
- Is there a relationship between this latest attack and rising prices across multiple industries?
- Why does one company being hacked affect prices across an entire industry?
First, They Came for the Lemonade Stands
https://www.bdtonline.com/news/health-dept-shuts-down-four-tween-cousins-lemonade-stand/article_fd3ab80c-b682-11eb-a9c8-a74211d758cb.html
We Discuss:
- Was this about safety, or taxes?
- How people can stay accountable in a world without business licenses
- How overzealous licensing laws disproportionately affect low-income communities
- “We can work for ourselves, and not work for other people”
